Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she had stripped off her top clothes she slapped the monitor pads on and connected up the leads . |
| 2 | The computer recognises some of the words and phrases which the child types in and reflects them back at the child as open-ended questions that encourage the child to reply . |
| 3 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |
| 4 | In any event , reference to the quota system can have no influence on the compatibility with Community law of the registration requirements except as regards the registration of vessels fishing for species subject to quotas . |
| 5 | Most often the monitor display is used interactively as the user experiments with and manipulates the output map in order to achieve a close fit to his or her requirements , and only then is output obtained in hardcopy form . |
| 6 | It has been our experience that our car service patients like and appreciate the service they receive , and actually prefer it to being carried by ambulance . |
| 7 | An ophthalmic optician or optometrist tests for and prescribes glasses and can diagnose eye conditions , but does n't treat eye diseases . |
| 8 | ‘ Sam had brought a couple of trucks of water melons in and stacked them on the sidewalk . |
| 9 | Life is a slow , but easy , on the phones until a newcomer breezes in and threatens their jobs , homelife and sanity . |
| 10 | Faced with conflicting advice from radio stations and the state authorities about whether to evacuate , many people just fled . |
| 11 | The first boy says he 's never had vegge burgers before and thought it would be a good idea to try them . |
| 12 | Put another way , the area which can properly be called the ‘ tectonic Pacific ’ is one of relatively low altitude that is bounded by a ring of islands and mountains which have been — and are still being — formed by the geological processes that occur when one tectonic plate bumps into and grinds against another . |
| 13 | He put his reading glasses on and looked more closely at it ; there were , he knew , dozens of different kinds of wood-lice , all classified , all named , distinguished by minute anatomical refinements , small but significant differences in the antennae or the genitalia . |
| 14 | A few paces to the right Yuan was flexing arm and shoulder muscles as if to ease some strain or tension , and Rostov wondered if the assassins knew how fast a Manchu could move when the need arose . |
| 15 | GERMANY looks set to slam the door on hundreds of thousands of foreign refugees when its parliament votes on whether to limit political asylum rights . |
| 16 | Having become deadlocked along party lines over whether to call for censure , the committee decided instead to present the case against Cranston on the Senate floor on Nov. 21 , a rare step for discipline short of formal censure . |
| 17 | Then all of a sudden he left and went up to San Carlos and joined the reservation police as if to become Apache again ( Here they called him Tres Hombres , which I will try to tell you about later . ) |